Fox News Anchor Busted For Being Drunk At Airport

Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett recently asked Fox for some time off from work for personal reasons

. I'm guessing those reasons might have something to do with drinking. The anchor was arrested around noon yesterday at the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport for obstructing the legal process. He basically was drunk and wouldn't cooperate with police. The police had originally been called to the airport restaurant because someone complained about Jarrett being drunk. I'm not sure why they chose the obstruction of the legal process rather than the drinking charge. He was released early this morning after posting $300 bail. It takes real effort to get drunk in an airport bar in the noon hour. I'm guessing he checked in really early for his flight.

What's a drinking charge, Enty? It's not illegal to be drunk if you're over 21. What you do while drunk is a different story. He refused to cooperate with police, which is why he was arrested. Which 7-11 did you get your law degree from?

I don't see how this has anything to do with politics, for those of you who are comparing the two. People get drunk…it's been happening for years. Lots of celebs have been caught drunk…some of them have even been caught doing drugs.

I'll always remember one moment of Jarrett's career. It's almost certainly one he wishes everyone on earth would forget.

He was one of the anchors of CourtTV's coverage of the OJ Simpson trial, and during the viewer call-in segment, a woman called to take Jarrett to task for something he'd said the day before.

The prosecution, you may recall, depended heavily on the scientific testimony of LAPD criminalist Dennis Fung, who was, as his name suggests, Chinese-American. And the previous day, the defense had been very effective in attacking Fung and his testimony.

The day I was watching, then, a very angry woman called in to scold Jarrett for his commentary after that strong cross-examination. She was outraged at how racist Jarrett had been.

"It's clear," Greg Jarrett had said, "That Dennis Fung is the chink in the prosecution's armor."

As the woman snarled that quote, poor Jarrett's face just fell, eyes widening and jaw dropping. It was obvious that it had never occurred to him that the very common phrase he had used contained a word that, was also a vicious racial epithet, and the poor bastard clearly saw his career in TV Journalism disappearing before his eyes.

(Of course, he ended up on Fox News, so, eventually, although I'm sure through no fault of that very unfortunate choice of words, it did.)

Airports are great to drink in. Good people watching. Let's get to the real story of which hot piece Shep Smith is dating. Secretly I hope it's Andy Cohen and they have a Carville/Maitlin type of long happy life together.

Guy getting drunk in airport bar is good gossip?Oh, he works for Fox. But of course. So it'll get a lot of comments from all the fraus who get their panties in a wad that there's a network that publicizes conservative perspectives. Escandolo!

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